Loans

The Loans Engine launches new broker survey

Secured loans master broker The Loans Engine has unveiled its inaugural broker survey. The...

Decidedly un-peachy verdict on payday loan ad

A payday lender has been told not to repeat one of its radio adverts...

Borro sees rise in supercars being used as loan security

Supercars are being used as collateral for loans, according to borro, the personal asset...

Smart Money Loans sees near doubling of loan sizes in Scotland

Smart Money Loans (SML) has reported a sharp increase in the average value of...

Michelle Blair joins the Loans Engine

The Loans Engine has appointed Michelle Blair as a business development manager. Blair has...

Strong April for secured lending

Secured loan lending in April was up 15.21% on the previous month, according to...

AFB elects representative to AMI board

The Association of Finance Brokers, the trade body for second mortgage professionals, will...

Smart Money Loans improves Rewards Scheme

Smart Money Loans (SML) has relaunched its Smart Rewards Scheme, in a move which...

Strong growth for Shawbrook Bank

Shawbrook Bank has posted an underlying second year profit of £2.6m. The lender has...

Kerry Katona loan ad banned

A TV ad for payday loans featuring Kerry Katona has been banned by the...

Payday lenders “not standing by their word”

Payday lenders are failing to carry out checks to make sure borrowers can afford...

Many more women than men applying for credit

72% of females, compared to just 28% of men, have applied for credit in...

Brightstar Financial pilots Prestige large loan

Brightstar Financial's secured loans division has become the first of Prestige Finance’s key distribution...

Masthaven Secured Loans improves proposition

Masthaven Secured Loans had made a number of changes to its product range. Rates have...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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